3rd Overall Software (176 teams) · TAMUhack · Jan 2026

Practice negotiating your salary against an AI that watches you through the camera. It reads your heart rate and breathing without touching you, and presses harder the moment it senses you getting nervous, exactly like a tough negotiator would.

Why it won: 78 percent of people never negotiate their salary, and the ones who try mostly lose to pressure, not ignorance. The camera measures your pulse and breathing from tiny changes in your face and feeds your stress to the negotiator every two seconds, so it cannot be fooled by a calm expression your body doesn't back up. Two people built it in 24 hours.